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Nine months ago, the European Union passed a landmark AI Act that was hailed as groundbreaking. It became the world’s first law aimed at regulating artificial intelligence technology, and specifically demanded that AI companies start informing the public when a piece of content is AI-generated.  But one of the most divisive aspects of the law

Nicky Campbell may be fashion-policing Hollywood’s A-list, but that hasn’t kept them from being fans of his TikTok takedowns. Campbell tells me that Sarah Paulson and Kris Jenner are just a few of the boldfaced names who have slipped into his DMs. He says Gwyneth Paltrow sent him a message that reads, “I love you

Audacy expanded its exclusive multiyear sales and distribution pact with CBS to encompass more than three dozen podcasts, including companion shows for “48 Hours,” “Survivor” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Since 2022, Audacy has been the ad sales and distribution partner for CBS Sports podcasts. The two companies’ partnership now includes the podcast

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company, is sending an all-women crew into space on its next flight — including singer Katy Perry, “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez, who is Bezos’ fiancée. The company on Thursday announced the six people flying on the NS-31 mission, set to launch in the spring of 2025.

“The Commuter,” an Audible original starring Lizzy Caplan as an ex-FBI agent who is unexpectedly entangled in a bizarre murder plot, has made its debut on the audio service. The series, co-starring Richard Schiff and Thomas Lennon, is written by James Patterson and Aaron Tracy, who also directs. It premieres Feb. 27 exclusively on Audible

Netflix subscribers streamed more content than ever in the back half of 2024 — and the second season of Korean hit drama “Squid Game” was the biggest TV show on the service. The streamer’s customers watched more than 94 billion hours on Netflix in the second half of last year, a 5% increase year over

Jeff Bezos is shaking up the Washington Post again. The billionaire owner of the newspaper said Wednesday he will change the focus of the opinion section to focus on “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” According to Bezos, he offered Washington Post editorial opinion page editor David Shipley “the opportunity

Italy’s Guardia di Finanza fiscal police has opened a tax probe into Elon Musk‘s social network X in a move that could have a broader impact on the ongoing regulatory battle brewing between the European Union and U.S. tech giants including Google, Apple and Meta. The Italian probe into X, first reported by Reuters, follows a

Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. But now YouTube — the world’s biggest video platform — might be the biggest platform for podcasts. According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide. In 2024, users watched more than 400 million hours of podcasts monthly on

Hairstylist Jesus Guerrero has died at the age of 34. Two of his celebrity clients, Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Jenner, have recognized him posthumously, with the latter offering to pay for funeral costs. A Instagram story post on Sunday from Guerrero’s family on the hairstylist’s account confirmed his death. “We have never doubted that he

An Apple dictation feature for the iPhone has been mistakenly transcribing “racist” as “Trump,” an issue that came to light after users posted about the issue on TikTok and social media. “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” an Apple rep

Hot mess, indeed. Alix Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast has been dropped by Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network. Sources say SiriusXM will also no longer sell ads for the show and that the Unwell Network has renounced all rights to “Hot Mess” so that Earle can freely explore future opportunities. The move comes amid growing chatter on

Warner Bros. Discovery is making cutbacks to try to get its games business back on track. The Warner Bros. Games division is pulling the plug on a “Wonder Woman” title that had been in development for more than three years. The open-world game was in the works at Monolith Productions, which is being shut down

Hide your valuables, “The Sims 4″ is finally adding an iconic feature fans of the early days of the game franchise have been clamoring for: the burglar. In “The Sims,” “The Sims 2,” and “The Sims 3,” the burglar character who sneaks into houses, usually at night when Sims are asleep, to steal household items

Radio host, podcaster and entrepreneur Charlamagne Tha God and iHeartMedia announced the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, including featured speakers at the event aimed at aspiring podcasters in the Black community. The event is set for Saturday, April 26, from 12-8 p.m. ET at Pullman Yards in Atlanta. Charlamagne Tha God will join the

John Oliver took aim at Mark Zuckerberg in a new episode of “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday, roasting the Meta CEO for both his new look and for removing fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram after Donald Trump’s election. While lamenting the fact that several big tech CEOs swung toward Trump after his victory over Kamala

Top true-crime podcast company Audiochuck, founded by Ashley Flowers, has received $40 million in funding from Peter Chernin‘s the Chernin Group. It’s the first outside capital for Audiochuck, which plans to use the investment to “scale the company and fuel its next phase of growth,” it announced Sunday. Flowers controls and owns a majority of

Kai Cenat, one of Twitch’s biggest livestreamers, is kicking off his latest marathon Friday: He says he is going to play the four main titles in the “Batman: Arkham” series nonstop — “until I beat it,” he posted on X. The livestream starts Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. ET on his Twitch channel, where he

UTA has signed digital media company Jubilee Media and its founder Jason Y. Lee for representation in all areas. Jubilee Media is a first of its kind studio that creates content aimed at provoking understanding and fostering human connection across both sides of the political and ideological spectrum. Jubilee is renowned for its viral content,

Nabbing exclusive rights to the prequel to “Shtisel,” the series Netflix made popular around the world, is more than just a financial opportunity for Izzy CEO Nati Dinnar to put his fledgling streaming service on the global map. Premiering Feb. 28 on Izzy, “Kugel” represents a chance to advance the interests of his homeland’s reputation amid war

Following her podcast amassing over 200 million downloads and hitting the top spot on Apple Podcasts, Mel Robbins has added new dates to her inaugural stage tour, “Let Them The Tour.” Robbins, who signed a mega deal with Sirius XM last October for “The Mel Robbins Podcast” and other programs, has added new dates in

Surj Sports Investment, the sports investment unit of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund (PIF), has acquired a minority stake in billionaire Len Blavatnik’s DAZN sports streaming service in an agreement that could radically change the sports content ecosystem in the Middle East. The long-gestating deal — widely believed to involve PIF paying $1 billion in exchange

“The Umbrella Academy” is coming back this June with a new story told in its original comic-book medium from creators Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá and Dark Horse Comics. Per the description for “The Umbrella Academy: Plan B,” “After the mass release of The City’s greatest foes and the chaos that followed in Hotel Oblivion,

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has temporarily suspended downloads of its chatbot applications in South Korea while working with local privacy regulators to address concerns, officials confirmed Monday, according to AP and local media. The rising AI player pulled its apps from South Korean versions of Apple’s App Store and Google Play on Saturday night, working

After several days of intensive negotiations, YouTube TV and Paramount Global renewed their carriage deal for CBS stations nationwide, MTV, Comedy Central and 20 other channels on the service. In addition, under the new agreement, YouTube TV has the right to bundle Paramount+ to “qualifying” customers. The companies announced the multiyear pact Saturday evening, after

YouTube TV and Paramount Global, still haggling over a new distribution deal, have reached a short-term extension to let the internet TV service continue carrying CBS and more than 20 other networks — for now. The companies are sparring over financial terms, with Paramount seeking a rate hike. Their existing deal expired at 11 p.m.

Apple‘s App Store and the Google Play store have restored TikTok for U.S. users as of Thursday, after they had removed it on Jan. 19. The tech giants had pulled TikTok from their U.S. stores because of a federal law effectively banning TikTok as of Jan. 19 because Chinese parent ByteDance had not divested its

Roku overdelivered for the fourth quarter of 2024, boosting revenue 22% and narrowing its net loss to top Wall Street expectations. Roku reported 89.8 million streaming households as of the end of 2024, up 12% year over year and a gain of 4.3 million from 85.5 million the prior quarter. It’s the last time the

Bellamy Young is launching a new podcast series. The “Scandal” star has teamed up with humanitarian organization CARE for the six-episode “She Leads With CARE,” premiering March 11 to coincide with International Women’s Day. The series features Young in conversation with women leaders from Honduras, Jordan, Nepal, Tanzania, Ukraine and Vietnam. Young has been working

WME has promoted Caitlin Mahony, the book agent behind popular romantasy authors including Callie Hart, Scarlett St. Clair and SenLinYu, to its partner ranks. Mahony, who has been with WME since 2016, reps commercial fiction authors across the board but is especially drawn to romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror and “anything with a strong genre